Bill Text: NY A02496 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs social services districts to contract with non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence to provide outreach and education to students in public and private high schools; provides for state reimbursement therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to social services [A02496 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02496-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2496
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, ORTIZ, JAFFEE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. AUBRY, COOK, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER,  HOOP-
          ER,  PERRY  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the Committee on Social
          Services
        AN ACT to amend the social services law,  in  relation  to  establishing
          school-outreach domestic violence prevention programs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 459-a of the social services  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  169 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    5. "Non-residential program for victims of  domestic  violence"  means
     5  any  program  operated by a not-for-profit organization, for the purpose
     6  of providing non-residential services to victims of  domestic  violence,
     7  including,  but not limited to, information and referral services, advo-
     8  cacy, counseling, and community education and  outreach  activities  and
     9  providing  or  arranging  for  hotline  services.  Victims  of  domestic
    10  violence and their children, if any, shall constitute at  least  seventy
    11  percent  of the clientele of such programs; provided that clientele in a
    12  school-outreach domestic violence prevention  program  shall  be  disre-
    13  garded in making this calculation.
    14    §  2.  Section 459-c of the social services law is amended by adding a
    15  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    16    3. (a) In accordance with the provisions of this subdivision  and  the
    17  regulations  of  the  office  of  children and family services, a social
    18  services district shall  purchase  from  a  not-for-profit  organization
    19  operating a non-residential program for victims of domestic violence and
    20  provide  to  students  within  public and private high school settings a
    21  program of information and referral services, advocacy, counseling,  and
    22  education about domestic violence.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (b)  To  the  extent  that  funds are appropriated expressly therefor,
     2  state reimbursement shall be available for one hundred  percent  of  the
     3  expenditures  made  by  a social services district for programs provided
     4  pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     6  it shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of the office
     7  of  children and family services is authorized to promulgate any and all
     8  rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement
     9  this act on its effective date on or before such date.